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EMBALMERS TRAY. APPLICATION IILEI) MAY 29,1911.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

FRED D. CLARK, OF ST. JOSEPH, MISSOURI.

EMBALMERS TRAY.

To all whom it may concern.

Be it known that I, FRED D. CLARK, a citizen of the United States ofAmerica, residing at St. Joseph, in the county of Buchanan and State ofMissouri, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in EmbalmersTrays of which the following is a specification.

The object sought by me in this device is to provide a device especiallyadapted for the use of undertakers and embalmers where by fluidsescaping from a body inthe process of embalming are caught and conveyedto a suitable receptacle.

I accomplish my object in the manner shown in the accompanying drawings,in which- Figure l is a top view of the device; Fig. 2 is a sectionalelevation of an embalmers cooling board, broken away, and of a traythereon shown cut on line w-w of Fig. 1; Fig. 3 is a top view of saidcooling board and the position occupied thereon by the drainage tray;Fig. at is an enlarged sectional detail, broken away, indicating theconstruction of tray floor, rim and outer supporting flange and Fig. 5is a top view of a cooling board and tray with a cadaver in positionthereon.

Similar letters refer to similar the several views.

In the drawings A represents an embalmers cooling board, or laying outtable, and B represents the rectangular body of a tray in connectionwith or incorporated in the cooling board. Said tray is provided with anextension C from a corner of said body B so constructed that it fits theform of the corpse across the shoulders and down the right side of thebody when the body is in place on the cooling board. A rim D projectsabove the floor of the tray around the outer edge, said rim beingprovided with a conduit E at the outer corner of extension C and withanother conduit F at the outer corner of the head of the tray. The underside of the tray is provided with a flange H formed by a downwardeXtenSion of said rim D; said flange begins with a thin edge at conduitF which is at the outer corner of the head end of the tray and graduallywidens to a maximum height of three fourths of an parts in Specificationof Letters Patent.

Application filed May 29, 1911.

Patented Apr. 8, 1913. Serial No. 630,128.

inch at the inner corner It, continues at said maximum height along theinner side to corner It and from that point diminishes gradually to athin edge at point if opposite conduit F, the starting place. The device is also provided with one or more supporting flanges extending fromsaid inner side of the tray to a point in line with the ends of said rimas shown by dotted lines spaced apart in Fig. 1. The flanges underneaththe tray support it in a slanting position thus giving drainage towardconduits E and F. Said conduits are preferably respectively projectedabout an inch from their respective corners and are provided with loosecollars f f which may be attached by hooks or other convenient means,the collars being suited to carry rubber tubes f f.

The device may be tilted toward the head by merely lifting the foot ofthe cooling board and bracing or supporting it in any convenient way andmay be tilted toward the foot by elevating the head end of the coolingboard in a similar manner.

What I claim and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is,-

1. An embalmers drainage tray comprising a body member and a formfitting extension thereof, drainage conduits for the fluid escaping fromthe body during the' process of embalming,

a rim projecting above the tray and having an outwardly curved thinedge, a flange underneath said rim having a maximum height at the innercorner of the tray and continuing thus to the outer corner thereof, theouter ends thereof sloping to a minimum and a central sloping supportunder said tray.

2. A drainage tray comprising a sloping bottom provided with a conduitin the corner thereof for an outlet when tilted toward the head; anextension provided with a conduit in a corner thereof for an outlet whentilted toward the foot and a rim around the tray having a form fittingedge across the shoulders and down the side.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

, FRED D. CLARK.

Witnesses:

ED G. SoHwnN, H. T. DRIVER.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressingthe Washington, D. G.

"Commissioner of Patents,

